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| Dec-16-04 | | EnglishOpeningc4: One of the best opening book writers of all time |
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| Apr-10-05 | | WorldChampeen: He's got a ton of books out there; I do have his concise chesss openings book, very good, it led me to get his concise middlegames book and he has an endgames book. Now to people who don't know these little books are about, well, I did go to amazon.com just to get the measurements, "4.9 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches " (described in one review as being good enough to be a cheat sheet, but I liked the way I could take it to the metro; waiting in the queu, etc. so, if you have all three of these books, you have a small library. Just getting back into Chess from last year, his openings book was virtually the first chess book I bought and a good choice I think, since that is what Chess games start out with, the openings. I guess these three little books are part of the "Every man" books. His middle game analysis suffices very well too, maybe some of it a bit over me at this point... I don't know how many books he has authored but it looks like dozens including books on the Dutch Defence, the English Opening, Caro Kann, a collection of miniatures, sounds good and I think that has been recommended before. If one wants to be Keen with one's finances, pick up a book you feel you really need used or our library has quite a fair number of books to read as well. |
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| Jul-08-05 | | zarra: Concise Chess Openings was the first book I had on the openings. It is very useful as an introduction to every important opening. Good thing about the book is that it explains the plans for certain openings very clearly. However, as you might expect, it lacks some depth. McDonald admits this in the introduction, and advises the reader to regard the book "as a tour through the openings". Having gone through it, I am now waiting to get my copy of Standard Chess Openings by Eric Schiller to get a somewhat deeper knowledge of those opening lines that I usually play (Ruy Lopez, Sicilian Najdorf, King's Indian). |
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| Jul-08-05 | | mack: Mac's a great writer, his King's Gambit book is very neat too. |
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| Aug-23-05 | | THE pawn: I got from him chess: the art of logical thinking, it's a move-by-move analysis of thirty extremely great strategical games of the laster quarter of century. Very interesting book that helps a lot in my own games. I also like his style of writing, sometimes, you think of chess writers has school dropouts that just do not know how to write, Neil is not one of them. |
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Aug-24-05
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| Aug-27-05 | | chess man: I own "Chess: Art of Logical Thinking" and I've found it to be very instructive and helpful. And of course enjoyable. |
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Feb-19-06
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| Jul-02-06 | | mack: England's lowest-rated grandmaster. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | WMD: Not in my book. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | mack: Who's in your book then? |
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| Jul-02-06 | | WMD: http://www.penguin.co.uk/ |
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| Jul-02-06 | | mack: Heh - very subtle - but of our country's active grandmasters, Neil's ranked the lowest isn't he? |
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| Jul-02-06 | | WMD: Is he active? |
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| Jul-23-06 | | biglo: FIDE 2374. Looks like he has been inactive for several years. |
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| Jul-23-06 | | whiskeyrebel: active or not, his "main line Caro-Kann" book is fantastic. He's a great teacher. I find myself remembering positions (and more importantly the strategic concepts related to them) from the games he discussed in it many months later. |
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| Jul-23-06 | | Gypsy: <EnglishOpeningc4: One of the best opening book writers of all time> A fine chess writer all around. |
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| Dec-31-06 | | Karpova: What does the <R> stand for - <Ronald>? |
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| Mar-15-07 | | unsound: Just to echo a 3-year-old comment, I find McDonald's opening books to be the best I've read. They seem to me to be not just opening books, but instructive books about chess more broadly--the explanation of the opening serves as a kind of vehicle for introducing the reader to interesting ways of thinking about the game. So they're far more than just a set of variations (though they're that too, with good illustrative games). I've got his books on the Dutch and on 1.e4, and I love them both. I've never met him and he didn't pay me to write this, I guess I should add, since I'm being so effusive. |
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| Mar-15-07 | | GBKnight: I have not read any of his books, but he was playing on the next board to me a couple of weeks ago in a league match, and had a very instructive post-mortem with my club colleague (who he had just beaten). It was much appreciated; highly rated players are not always this accommodating. |
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| May-06-08 | | Gypsy: Recently, I had to take a poignant trip home. I packed also a chess book that I recently bought and gave it to my father. A couple of weeks later he suddenly suddenly interupted me from my work: <You know -- that book you gave me -- that is the best chess book I have ever red or seen.> The book is ... Neil McDonnald: The Giants of Strategy. |
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| May-11-08 | | Knight13: This guy's also a grandmaster.
The Giants of Chess Strategy is very good, yes, for advanced players OR someone who already understands positional chess. |
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| May-11-08 | | Gypsy: <Knight13> Yes, my old fellow qualifies as such: He is quite a connoisseur of positional chess; and he is still quite good at it. |
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May-27-08
 | | ketchuplover: There's an unfavorable review of Starting Out:1.e4 at www.chessville.com |
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| May-10-09 | | ToTheDeath: This guy was great on SNL's Weekend Update. |
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